These Strawberry Cakes Mix Cookies are perfect for Valentine’s Day. Not to mention, it’s the easiest cookies recipe you’ll make. Sweet, cute and so fun.
Make Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies in less than a half of an hour with 6 simple ingredients. No need to dig around your pantry looking for all of the ingredients. Just combine all ingredients into one bowl, mix, roll into balls, and then bake.
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What We Love About This Cream Cheese Cake Mix Cookie Recipe
- 30 Minute Treat: Make these cream cheese cake mix cookies in a half of an hour.
- Easy Ingredients: All you need for these tasty strawberry cake cookies is 6 simple ingredients.
- Valentine’s Day: These pretty pink strawberry cookies are perfect for valentines day.
Ingredient Notes
- Cake Mix: You can use any golden, white, or vanilla boxed cake mix. Use gluten free if necessary.
- Butter: The butter should be unsalted and softened to room temperature.
Variations and Substitutions for Strawberry Cookies from Cake Mix
- Chocolate – For chocolate covered strawberry inspired cookies drizzle over milk or dark chocolate in place of white chocolate.
- Strawberry Cake Mix – For an added strawberry flavor use boxed strawberry cake mix in place of vanilla.
- Additions: Try adding freeze dried strawberry pieces or white chocolate chips.
- Cutters: Fun cookie cutters are so cute and will add to the celebration.
How to Make Strawberry Cake Mix Cookie Recipe
These are the basic steps for making Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies. Please refer to the recipe card below for more detailed instructions. Including prep time, and total time. Check Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook for more.
STEP 1: MAKE THE DOUGH
Start by preheating the oven to 325 degrees F. Then prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat. Then to a large mixing bowl, add the cake mix, strawberry jello mix, softened butter, softened cream cheese and an egg. Use a hand-mixer on medium speed to mix, stir until fully combined.
STEP 2: SHAPE COOKIE DOUGH
Next, form the cookie dough balls by using a measuring tablespoon or cookie scoop and roll into balls. Place cookie dough on prepared baking sheet. Press balls down by using the palm of your hand or the bottom of a flat glass to gently flatten the dough balls. Bake for 12-14 minutes.
STEP 3: ROUND COOKIES
To create a perfect circle shape for your cookies, immediately after baking, use the circular ring of a mason jar lid, a circular cookie cutter, or the rim of a large glass and place over the top of each cookie. Then move the object in a circular pattern around the cookie allowing it to gently touch the edges. This method only works when cookies are soft and fresh out of the oven. Finally, transfer carefully cookies to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
STEP 4: CHOCOLATE DRIZZLE
To add the white chocolate drizzle to the cookies: Add white chocolate chips to a microwave safe bowl and microwave on 50% power until melted, stirring every 30 seconds. Transfer melted white chocolate to a sandwich bag. Snip off a small corner of the bag and drizzle the white chocolate in a back and forth pattern over the top of each cookie.
Prep and Storage Tips
HOW TO MAKE THIS RECIPE AHEAD OF TIME
Make these cream cheese cake mix cookies ahead of time by following the steps as usual and store in airtight container using the bread hack (see expert tips below). You can also prepare the dough cookie dough 1 day ahead of time by preparing as usual and storing cookies in the fridge until ready to bake.
HOW TO STORE THIS RECIPE
Store strawberry cake cookies in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
HOW TO FREEZE THIS RECIPE
Freeze the cookie dough before baking, store in a freezer safe bag or airtight container for up to 3 months. If freezing cookies after they are baked, freeze in a freezer bag for up to 1 month. Then make a batch of cookies whenever you wish.
Frequently Asked Questions
Easily make this strawberry cake mix recipe gluten free by using a gluten free box cake mix, you can fix an alternative in either the gluten free section or mixed in the baking section.
If you would like to, you can substitute a different flavor of jello in place of strawberry.
Easily double or half this recipe by proptionally increase or decrease ingredients.
Truly it is a personal preference. Try using what you can get on sale.
Expert Tips for Making This Recipe
- This Recipe Can be Doubled: Easy double this cream cheese cake mix cookies recipe by increasing the ingredients proportionally. Cook in batches.
- Store with Bread Slice: To keep these strawberry cake cookies fully fresh for 5 days, store with a slice of bread as it will ensure the cookies stay moist. Trust me this hack is a serious game changer for almost all of your cookies recipes.
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Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies
Equipment
- Round Cookie Cutter
- Sandwich Bags
Ingredients
- 17 ounces yellow gluten free cake mix, 1 box
- 3 ounces strawberry jello, 1 box
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add cake mix, strawberry jello mix, softened butter, softened cream cheese and egg. Use a hand-mixer on medium speed to mix combined.
- Use a measuring tablespoon to scoop the dough and roll into balls. Place onto an ungreased baking sheet. Use the palm of your hand or the bottom of a flat glass to gently flatten the dough balls.
- Bake in preheated oven for 12-14 minutes.
- To create a perfect circle shape for your cookies, immediately after baking, use the circular ring of a mason jar lid, a circular cookie cutter, or the rim of a large glass and place over the top of each cookie. Move the object in a circular pattern around the cookie allowing it to gently touch the edges and reshape the cookie into a circle. This method only works when cookies are soft and fresh out of the oven.
- Once reshaped into circles – use a spatula to carefully transfer the cookies to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
- To add the white chocolate drizzle to the cookies: Add white chocolate chips to a microwave safe bowl and microwave on 50% power until melted, stirring every 30 seconds. Transfer melted white chocolate to a sandwich bag. Snip off a small corner of the bag and drizzle the white chocolate in a back and forth pattern over the top of each cookie.
Expert Tips
- This Recipe Can be Doubled: Easy double this cream cheese cake mix cookies recipe by increasing the ingredients proportionally. Cook in batches.
- Store with Bread Slice: To keep these strawberry cake cookies fully fresh for 5 days, store with a slice of bread as it will ensure the cookies stay moist. Trust me this hack is a serious game changer for almost all of your cookies recipes.
Estimated Nutritional Information
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I like the flavor and they turned out well. I didn’t see an oven temperature listed in the recipe so baked at 350 degrees F. and that worked.